Young Vic; Orange Tree, Richmond; Hampstead, LondonBigotry is transformed into glorious song and dance as Broadway hit The Scottsboro Boys reaches LondonNine black boys in Alabama in 1931 were falsely convicted of raping two white women. The case of The Scottsboro Boys became notorious " racial bigotry at its most extreme. The guilty verdict was challenged by a New York Jewish attorney and by the American communist p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:05PM on November 2, 2013